Why Muslims Should Never Have To Apologize for Terrorism
Source: The Huffignton Post Picture this: You wake up in the morning to hear your wife screaming at you because it’s pouring rain outside. She hates the rain and […]
Illegal migration to EU rises for routes both well-worn and less-traveled
BY PHILLIP CONNOR The number of illegal entries into Europe by migrants hit a high point last year, and as their numbers increased, a picture emerged of the land and sea routes many migrants are taking to get there. In 2015, more than 1.8 million people crossed the European Union’s […]
The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World
Women are generally more religious than men, particularly among Christians Standard lists of history’s most influential religious leaders – among them Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) – tend to be predominantly, if not exclusively, male. Many religious groups, including Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews, allow only men […]
Religion’s tax break is a cross we shouldn’t have to bear
Source: The Age Whether or not you are a practising Christian, Easter is a time to think about religious traditions. The ongoing proceedings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child […]
Moderates are losing the fight to save Islam from racists and extremists
Source: Quartz The alarming exploitation of the Brussels attacks for political purposes shows how urgent it is to take back the discourse around Islam and Muslims from racists and extremist populists like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. Instead of leaving the field wide open for the big-mouthed bigots and […]
IS in Europe: The race to the death
Source: BBC Tuesday’s devastating attacks in Brussels, in which more than 30 people died and scores were injured, are the latest phase of the war on Europe declared by the […]
The hidden psychology of failure
Source: BBC If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Words of wisdom heralded throughout our upbringing, to be sure. But is there any scientific proof that successive failure […]
This Is How Successful People Respond to Criticism
Source: Motto By Tara Mohr The creator of the Playing Big leadership program for women and author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead. ‘Good work is almost never met exclusively with praise’ In my late 20s, I worked for a large […]
Canada: lights flipped on Office of Religious Freedom
huffingpost.ca 2016/03/21 OTTAWA — The Liberals all but flipped off the lights on Canada’s Office of Religious Freedoms, voting Monday against a Tory motion to keep open the controversial post and saying that its stand alone status is over. The writing has been on the wall for the office since […]
What’s Happening to American Democracy?
Source: Aljazeera What’s happening to American democracy? With a populist billionaire demagogue winning support on the right, a self-declared socialist confounding US historical prejudices on the left and millions of […]
Radovan Karadzic found guilty of genocide, sentenced to 40 years
Source: CNN (CNN)Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity over atrocities that Bosnian Serb forces committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. A special U.N. court in The Hague, […]
Why Belgium sends mores recruits to ISIS?Europe’s Underbelly: Brussels Is the Ultimate Soft Target
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/belgium-bureaucratic-chaos-partly-to-blame-for-attacks-a-1083806.html#ref=nl-international They were so proud last Friday when police managed to apprehend Salah Abdeslam. Finally, Europe’s most-wanted terrorist was locked away. The Belgian government was so relieved that they immediately released a photo to the world showing Prime Minister Charles Michel, with French President François Hollande seated next to […]
What Is Easter Without the Resurrection?
Source: Huffington Post By Christian Chiakulas; Writer, activist, and musician from Chicago John Dominic Crossan closes the main text of his 1994 book Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography with the question: […]
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools
Source: Hamilton Spectator ByAhmed Sahi “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.” Since the dreadful attacks in Brussels, there’s been a barrage of pundits and political figures throughout […]
Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years
Reuters International MAR 24, 2016 – 16:22 By Thomas Escritt and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N judges who found him guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and of nine other war crimes […]
Daily life in the Piraeus refugee camp
MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
The Latest: Karadzic Sentenced to 40 Years in Genocide Case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mar 24, 2016 The Associated PressDemonstrators gather outside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia before the trial of former Bosnian […]
Report: world’s happiest countries are also least religious
Report: World’s Happiest Countries Are Also Least Religious March 17, 2016 by Michael Stone 42 Comments The world’s happiest countries are also the world’s least religious countries according to a new report released by the World Happiness Index. Science Alert reports that every year, the World Happiness Index surveys numerous people from various countries around the world […]
Muslims have a moral responsibility to address Isis’s bastardisation of Islam
By Ro Waseem March 23, 2016 17:34 GMT ibtimes.co.uk “Isis has nothing to do with Islam!” has become the mainstream response by Muslims to jihadist attacks. As a Muslim myself, I find it grotesque to observe the impunity with which jihadists murder innocent civilians, chanting the name of God who, in […]
American Muslims Defy Sen. Ted Cruz’s Call for Surveillance
By gillian flaccus, associated press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mar 24, 2016, 12:00 AM ET abcnews.go.com Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s call for patrolling Muslim neighborhoods in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks has sparked a backlash on Twitter.The trending hashtag #MyMuslimNeighborhood calls out the latest controversial remarks made by the […]